Amazon Elastic Transcoder review
Elastic Transcoder is an online service of AWS Amazon. It converts videos online and you can chose from a range of presets to determine the format of the output. It is possible to set several formats in one go and have them transcoded/converted in the background. You can also create new presets based on existing [...]
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Trailer My Blind heart – a film debut by Peter Brunner
MY BLIND HEART is the character study of Kurt, who suffers from the Marfan Syndrome and tries to rebel against his body. Christos Haas, who plays Kurt, suffers from the rare Marfan Syndrome in real life. His left eye is blind and his right eye has about 20% vision. The Marfan Syndrome is a defect [...]
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How to create captions/subtitles for video and audio in WebVTT, SRT, DFXP format
This tutorial shows how easy it is to create captions/subtitles files in WebVTT, SRT and DFXP format for subtitling in videos and audios. Depending on the media player you use, you can even provide subtitles in different languages for the same media. Subtitle files are basically text files you can write in Notepad(Win) or SimpleText(Mac). [...]
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Should I upgrade to JW Player Pro 6.0 or Premium?
A question that pops up regularly these days is: “Should I upgrade to JW Player 6.0?” This depends on which features of JW Player you are using currently. JW Player 6.0 has a new set of advanced features which are surely worthwhile to investigate, but keep in mind there are quite a few changes in [...]
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Embedding an audio with poster image, watermark and subtitles, using JW Player 5.10
Embedded audios in a website generally display a simple control bar with navigation buttons to play, pause, rewind and so on. While this is great for audio libraries, it can be so much more. In this tutorial, I’ll show you step by step how to add a poster image, a watermark and subtitles, using JW [...]
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How to embed a video from Vimeo in WordPress without iFrame
As explained in the older article, Vimeo.com has 3 standard ways to display videos directly on your website or blog. In this article, I explain how to use the standard method, embedding to place videos in WordPress. Since WordPress does not accept the iFrame method, we need to use the old embedding method. Vimeo makes [...]
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Australia gets its own S3 Edge server
Finally, after a lot of nagging by various interested parties(me included), Australia gets its own Edge server on S3 Amazon, namely in Sydney. This will have quite some impact on delivery of streaming video and audio in the Land Down Under, because they have serious problems playing HD video. An edge server is especially useful [...]
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How to skip to a chapter in a video with JW Player?
A chapter is a place in the timeline of a streaming video. It can be anywhere in the video and there is no need to define chapters upfront. With JW Player, you can add chapter links to any part of a video or audio. This is very useful in lengthy videos/audios which cover several topics. [...]
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Big improvements on S3Media Stream for Joomla!
S3Media Stream is a powerful tool to publish private streaming video and audio with S3 CloudFront on Joomla sites. We are happy to announce big improvements on this extension. So far, it worked with a module to display the rich media. Like its WordPress version, it also has protected download links for all sorts of [...]
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How to setup a Billing Alert for AWS Amazon/CloudFront
Billing Alert from S3 Amazon is a fantastic new feature. It gives you the opportunity to be warned by email when your bill reaches an amount you determine upfront. This will help you greatly to control your spending on AWS, since you can take immediate action when necessary. Sometimes, your audios or videos score a hit [...]
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Embedding a Playlist for Streaming Video – using JW Player
Embedding a video/audio playlist is not difficult at all, it only requires your full attention. In this tutorial (part 2), I’ll show you how to embed a dynamic playlist. A dynamic playlists differs with a regular playlist in a sense that you do not need to create a separate xml file. For this tutorial, you [...]
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How far are we with HTML5? A report by Longtail Video
HTML5 for Video progresses all the time. Not as quick as we hope for and audio is often left out of the equation, but there is progress nevertheless. LongTail Video has brought out a report on the current state of HTML5, and the interesting thing is that the report will be upgraded every time there [...]
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GreenGeeks shared hosting review
Normally, I do not like to write reviews about hosting providers but I make an exception this time. GreenGeeks.com has its marbles together in terms of performance and like DreamHost, it does its bit to reduce carbon emissions, which I think is important. When asked about their 300% Wind-powered claim, support told me this:
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S3 Amazon public content in danger of being hacked
All S3 Amazon account holders should be aware that there are hacker scripts around that scan for public content in S3 buckets. Amazon has warned all account holders if they have public buckets. Reading public content is quite easy since public files are readable to everyone. But what does that actually imply and what can [...]
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NaturalReader: voice-over software that does the talking for you
You don’t like your own voice on recordings, yet you cannot afford or have no time to hire a professional voice-over? Here is wonderful software that almost gets it right: NaturalReader. This software turns text into speech with voices that are way more sophisticated then any speech software of your Operating system. It is available [...]
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